U. S. Steel Košice - Labortest, s.r.o.

Company info

The main reason for establishing the company was the need to fulfill strict legislative criteria for accreditation awards within the existing framework of the Slovak National Accreditation Service.

The objective is to broaden the scope and quality of the final quality control service provided at U. S. Steel Kosice, s.r.o., as well as gaining better credibility with our customers after the introduction of an unbiased quality control system in line with STN EN ISO/IEC 17025 criteria.

The company covers the following activities as per its certificate of incorporation

Certificate with the right to use a seal of testing laboratory
registered in the Association No. 05 - Slovak Testing Laboratories Association

Laboratories

» Cokery Laboratory

» Cold Rolling Mill Laboratory

» Quantometric Laboratory

» Mechanical Testing Laboratory

Cokery Laboratory

Is competent to perform chemical and physical analyses of solid fuels (coal and coke), gases, waste and underground waters, petroleum products and coke-oven chemicals products.
The accredited body gives evidence of competence to perform the accredited activity impartially and trustworthily by meeting the requirements of the ISO/IEC 17025:2005 Standard.

Underground water – determination of permanganate index by potentiometric titration

Non-accredited analyses

Solid fuels:

Dilatometer test of hard coal, determination ofchlorine and phosphoruscontent in the solid mineral fuels,crucible swelling number of hard coal, volatile mater in the brown coal, test sieving of coal and relative degree of oxidation in bituminous coal

Mechanical Testing Laboratory

Is competent to perform mechanical tests of metallic materials.
The accredited body gives evidence of competence to perform the accredited activity impartially and trustworthily by meeting the requirements of the ISO/IEC 17025:2005 Standard.